A man and his son were arrested for allegedly raping his teenaged daughter in Dombivili township of Thane district in Maharashtra while a 15-year-old dalit girl was allegedly raped and held captive for 15 days by three men in Dharauli village in Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The two village officials were arrested in connection with two rape incidents in Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh.

In the incident at Jagannathpur in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district, police said the woman’s son, Alafaz Ali, had filed an FIR last night at Barasat police station stating that his mother was gang-raped and murdered and his father was poisoned and seriously injured.

In Gujarat, a minor gang rape victim allegedly attempted suicide by consuming poison at her residence today, police said. The 14-year-old girl’s condition is critical and she has been put on ventilator, they said.

Police said the minor was kidnapped in a car from Dholka town in Ahmedabad district and raped by two persons on December 6, following which her family members registered FIR on December 14.